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Église Sainte-Marie

Sainte-Marie-de-Gosse, Landes, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Eglise (cad. I 189) : inscription par arrêté du 1er février 1999
Protection dates
1999/02/01 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
11e siècle, 12e siècle, 16e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Lieu-dit
le Bourg
Commune
Sainte-Marie-de-Gosse
Département
Landes
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
43.55687, -1.23852
Mérimée reference
PA40000030

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1771 map "139 Bayonne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

L'église Sainte-Marie tient son originalité à la diversité des apports de chaque siècle. Une première église édifiée au 11e siècle, dont il reste un pan de mur, fut transformée et agrandie jusqu'au 18e siècle. Un second édifice du 12e siècle, dont il subsiste le chevet éclairé de baies ornées de chapiteaux sculptés, a été voûté d'ogives à l'époque gothique, muni d'un porche fortifié, puis agrandi par un collatéral au 16e siècle. La sacristie fut rajoutée au 18e siècle. Présence de peintures polychromes dans l'abside. Ce n'est pas un ensemble homogène, mais il est intéressant par la qualité architecturale et décorative des éléments apportés par chaque époque.

English translation

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The church of Sainte-Marie owes its originality to the diversity of the contributions of each century. A first church built in the 11th century, of which a section of wall remains, was transformed and enlarged until the 18th century. A second building of the 12th century, of which the chevet lit by openings decorated with sculpted capitals subsists, was vaulted with rib vaults in the Gothic period, provided with a fortified porch, then enlarged by an aisle in the 16th century. The sacristy was added in the 18th century. Presence of polychrome paintings in the apse. It is not a homogeneous ensemble, but it is interesting for the architectural and decorative quality of the elements brought by each period.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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